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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Right ascension
12 13 16.860
Declination
+43 ° 41 ′ 53.77 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
929 km/s
Distance
55 million light years
Group or cluster
Ursa Major Cluster
Type
Sc
Size
80,000 ly (diameter)
Apparent size v
6.39 x 0.39

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy with a faint core and an open spiral structure located about 55 million light-years from the Sun. Spanning about eighty thousand light-years, it appears in the constellation of Canes Venatici. NGC 4183 was observed for the first time by British astronomer William Herschel on 14 January 1788.

NGC 4183 is a member of the NGC 4111 Group, which is part of the Ursa Major Cloud and is the second largest group in the cloud after the NGC 3992 Group.

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